Event Browser Problem

Every time I import videos into iMovie '09, the videos do appear in the Event Browser. The problem is, after I finish editing my videos, I want to delete the clips in the browser. Now I know that this doesn't actually delete the file itself but sometimes, some clips in the browser can't be deleted no matter how I try to. The only way I did it was to delete using "Show in Finder" then "Move to Trash". When I reopened iMovie the next time, the clips in the browser were finally gone. Any ideas?

I was having this exact same problem. I tried deleting the preferences, however that didn't work. But, yes, when I switched the view from 'show viewers on second display', back to 'show on main display'... the spacebar worked again... then I switched back to showing the viewers on my second display, the original circumstance (which is definitely my preference)... and so far it is working again.. doesn't seem like anything has been 'fixed', but hopefully this doesn't happen often.
So thanks to this thread, as I had no idea what to do, and it was getting very annoying.

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Is there a way to split clips in the Event browser? (audio-synch related)

It seems there is no way to split an event-clip (a clip that appears in the Event browser). You can split Events--but only if they consist of more than one clip. And then you can only split them between two clips. People who have transferred analog video tapes (e.g., Video8) to their computers with the help of iMovie end up with Events that are the same length as their video tapes. So this usually means 2-hour events (consisting of one clip). But iMovie has a synchronization problem for such DV files. This problem would be mitigated by having shorter events. Hence the desire to split events. I thought a read somewhere a workaround for splitting event-clips, but if was a few months ago. I wouldn't think there is any reason we cannot split event clips, other than a preference for non-destructive editing. But a bit of destruction may be worthwhile if it improves synchronization. Does anyone know a way to split clips in the Event browser?

you haven't updated to FCPX10.1 haven't you
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.1/?lang=en#ver15f852e7

Thumbnail images in the event browser

After about 20 minutes on FCPX the thumbnail images in the event browser randomaly disappear. If I move the scrubber bar over the blank thumbnail the image reappears but only for as long as I linger on the thumbnail. The audio track remains visible all the time. Changing the view or the scale doesn't help. It's difficult to find clips, as you can imagine. Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks Russ. After returning to original layout the problem subsided but returned after a longer time period (about two hours). I was just working (on a different project) and suddenly %90 of the thumbnails turned blue. I could still see the audio information but the pictures vanished. The picture returns when the scrubbing bar hovers over the thumbnail then disappears again when I take the bar away. This is incredibly frustrating. Could it be because I'm using a thunderboldt display off of my Mac Book Pro? Both are less than 1 year old and the Pro is (was) top of the line at the time. Blind as a bat.

Play back video clip is not working in the event browser...

Hello,
I have a problem in the event browser only. If I place the skimmer in any clip and press the space bar, nothing happen. If I press the "play" arrow" it does not work neither nor through the presentation menu.
The space bar shortcut to play works perfectly fine in the timeline, but not in the event browser.
In order to preview a clip at normal speed (100%), I have to drag it in the timeline and play it wich is rather anoying.
Any idea on how to correct this issue would be very much welcome.
Thank you very much for your help.

I was having this exact same problem. I tried deleting the preferences, however that didn't work. But, yes, when I switched the view from 'show viewers on second display', back to 'show on main display'... the spacebar worked again... then I switched back to showing the viewers on my second display, the original circumstance (which is definitely my preference)... and so far it is working again.. doesn't seem like anything has been 'fixed', but hopefully this doesn't happen often.
So thanks to this thread, as I had no idea what to do, and it was getting very annoying.

List view is blank in event browser

I have noticed something strange in Final Cut ProX. If I select an event in the Event Browser while in Film Strip View I can see all of the files that are in that event. If I click on the icon to show clips in List View, none of my files can be seen in the Event Browser. If I then click back on the Film Stip View, the Event Browser stays blank. The only way to get it working again in Film Strip View is to close and re-open Final Cut ProX.
Am i doing something wrong or is there a problem with the program. I purchased the Ripple Training series and it seems that I should be able to just jump back and forth between the two views.
Thanks for the help.

Due to the silence, I figured nobody else had this problem so I went ahead and called Apple for assitance. The issue turned out to some sort of corruption in my preferences. I was able to resolve the problem by trashing my preferences file.
In case some else has a similar strange issue, it is very easy to trash your preference file.
1) Close FinalCut Pro X
2) Open a finder window
3) Go to Library\Preferences
4) Find the file "com.apple.finalcut.plist"
5) Delete the file "com.apple.finalcut.plist"
6) Restart your computer
7) Open FinalCut Pro X and it should be like when you first started the program
This does not seem to impact any of your previously imported events or projects -- it just resets the program settings.

Latest version iMovie: cannot see clips in project OR event browser, but they are there in both libraries! So cannot create/edit/publish ANYTHING.

HI All. I have been having a HECK of a time with iMovie 11!!! Converted a bunch of video to .mov format, imported into iMovie, and created a project. No problem. Finalized, and published to iTunes, no problem. Saves extra copies. No Problem. SO ... I want to create another project, and follow the instructions RELIGIOUSLY. I can import the video files into the event library, and can drag them into a newly created project, but I CANNOT see the clips in the browser pane for events or library! When I click the playhead in either the event library or the project library (where the clips are edited - supposedly), they play (ie, i hear the audio just fine) ... but NO real-time playback. ALSO - the video no longer plays for the already completed project when I click the playhead - same deal - not in the project browser, not in the event browser. The playhead runs, but as it moves from thumbnail to thumbnail, each one goes black, and no video plays in real time in the other pane. I closed out of iMovie, did a restart, repaired permissions. No change. I get no error messages, and can find no way to 'reassociate' a project with a set of clips (like one can do in software like Illustrator etc).HELP!!!

I've spent 3 hours in Apple Covent Garden trying to have this fixed. Most of those were spent doing something to content in iPhoto. It didn't work. Then I left them my computer to reinstall software (Snow Leopard and iMovie) which they said they could do better than me and my discs. But I got back a computer with a new user profile and no files. When I used Time Machine to restore my files to my old profile the problem was just as before except now I've lost a week worth of photos, despite the Time Machine file having been saved just hours before I gave my Mac to the muppets in the Apple store.
If it's any clue, the other I get is that iMovie searches for four missing movie files when it tries to load. I've tried solving this by creating new files and changing the names to match the ones that are missing (as I read elsewhere in the community works) but it doesn't work.
So I've wasted hours, a day of Apple having my computer and no one replies to my thread here. What's to be done? Do I give up on iMovie and buy Final Cut pro? And how can I get my week's worth of photos back that have disappeared from TimeMachine, even though everything else in the restoration (e.g. mail and Firefox windows) are completely up to date?

Wow ... How to edit Event Browser Clips in Your Events

Maybe it's just me, but this seems very useful. I recently saw a discusson on the "Open in Timeline" command. There's not a lot of documentation on it, but if you can use it to open an event browser clip in the timeline. The video and audio of the clip are detached from each other. Hafken and some others have noted that you could use this feature to sync audio to the video if there were sync problems. I agree.
But it started me thinking ... what else could be done to the clip. I took the Blade tool and cut off large amounts of the clip off the start and end then deleted the ends. I then applied a couple of effects with pronounced amounts so I could track whether they "took" in the event browser clip or not. To my surprise not only did the clip change in start and end and duration due to the Blade tool use, but also the effects remained. I used the Left Arrow at the upper left of the timeline window to back out of the timeline edit as if I were backing out of a compound clip, and then clicked on the clip in the event browser. All the edited changes I had made were now on that clip. It had changed the length, start and end points and the nature of the video, etc ... Now that clip was a part of my event browser without having to render/share it and import the rendered version to get a clip I wanted.
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser. We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip. So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline. It seems the Open in Timeline command can be used quite well to change the clips in the event browser to be just the parts that we want to keep in the event browser (you might have to duplicate the clip to edit out the multiple segments). Furthermore, we can add processing to them and have them "saved" to the event browser for future use as building blocks.
Is it just me ... did I miss this functionality all along ... or is this something that is really useful?
stephen

I agree it can be a useful feature in certain circumstances. The most obvious to me being the audio/video "sync" and creation of "subclip" equivalents.
I haven't tested it yet, but if you can put content from the timeline into an empty Event Browser compound clip, that could also be very useful, allowing an easier way to reuse content across projects as opposed to copy/paste from/to projects. I wonder what would happen if you paste content from a clip that is from a different Event.
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser. We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip. So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline.
Actually you can do this using favorites. After you have marked your favorite sections, in the Event Browser, you can just "Show Favorites" (control-F). Now all the favorite sections look like separate clips which you can individually edit into the timeline (either via keyboard or drag/drop).
I think using favorites/keywords to identify the parts you want to keep is preferable to the Open in Timeline use-blade-tool approach; even though it is non-destructive regarding the actual media on disk, it is destructive in the sense that you no longer have access to what you remove unless you re-mport it. In most cases, it is just better to hide that unwanted media rather than make it gone forever.

Clip appearance not displaying in event browser in filmstrip view

Some of the clips in the event browser don't display a visual in the filmstrip view until I skim over it. Any clue?

Here is a solution to the problem:
In the Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder,
enter /Users/Your user name//Movies/iMovie Library.imovielibrary/Name of Event/
(Name of Event is exactly as it appears in the Event Browser)
Select Go
This takes you to the folder in iMovie Library for that event, and you will see the contents of that folder as several folders and perhaps a file. One of the folders is Original Media. Open that folder and you will see individual files of the individual clips contained in that Event. Delete the file of choice in the usual OS X way. iI will then appear in the Trash folder. Empty the trash and it is gone.
This solution was suggested by Shirt Pocket Support, which provides technical help for the backup app SuperDUper. I am indebted to them.
Bob Stokstad

All photos lost from Event browser and unable import photos

I did something, perhaps while solving a non-responding problem, which caused all photos to disappear from Event Browser, but not from Timeline. When I try to import photos I get "formatting files for import" but nothing is imported.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Les ([email protected])

Thanks Russ. When I read the answer to a different question, I realized, although the photos were no longer visible in the Event Browser, FCPX saw them as duplicates and wouldn't import. I opened a supplementary Event and was able to import them there.
Les
Yes, I did intend to include my email address. Is that a problem?

Cannot drag video from event browser to Project Browser

I have been using imovie 09 for some time now, and i have only just overcome the problem of the random sound glitches when you slow clips down to anything but the default speeds. I have been making music videos with clips from movies i've uploaded from dvds.
Previously I have had no trouble at all with this, but just yesterday I tried to make another music video. I am able to create a new project, but when i try to drag video clips from the event browser and drop them in the project browser, the little green plus sign appears but when i drop the clip in there it doesn't do anything. But if I go to the project library, my new project is there and it says that the video clips are actually in there. Also, the video preview display on the right will playback the video in the event browser but it won't play the sound. How can I fix these problems and why would they only have surfaced now?

Thank you so very much!!!! I know I will get this but hey, I am 70 years old - I sure hope I get it soon Make sure "skimming is switched on" was wonderful. Why doesn't Lynda even mention this? UGH!
In terms of dragging the clip; I am taking it from upper left hand corner of the screen which I believe is called the Event library and taking it down to the middle of the screen. But in the middle of the screen is the daggone audio wave file and all I am doing is putting that clip on top of the audio wave file and when I play, I get both audios!
I remember working in iMovie 09 and iMovie 06 you would drag your clips down into the time line and do your editing there. That doesn't seem to be working here. I appreciate your help more than I can say. I've got to get a DVD out ASAP and it has to be done in FCP X

Marking an in or out point in the event browser changes the selected clip

I'm getting quite infuriated with this issue at the moment. I'm not sure if it's a bug, or I'm doing something wrong.
I've created collections of subclips by tagging ranges with keywords in the event browser. I'm now trying to edit these onto the timeline. I find the clip I want in the browser and use JKL and IO to mark the in and out point of the actual part of the clip I'm going to use. The problem I'm having is that sometimes - not all the time - pressing I or O changes the selected clip in the event browser.
Any ideas what's going on?
Many thanks in advance for any help you're able to offer.

Changes how? Post screen shots of what you're seeing and what you expect to see.

Event Browser - Display Playhead Info iMovie 11?

Hello all, I've spent a great deal of time trying to get the playhead info to display in the event browser. It is important for this to work as I want to make a compilation video from 4 or 5 different feeds and have to sync the video to the recorded sound. I've tried the suggestions in previous topics such as renaming the file to the following format clip-2007-04-01 12;23;03.mov. This suggestion does not work for me and the playhead displays the date created not the information in the file name.
Anyone have any suggestions? Is this even possible? This is driving me crazy.

AppleMan1958 wrote:
I am stumped.…
My only other thought is to consider the country you are in.
In the US that should work. …
5¢ from Europe here:
a) I would NEVER consider to fumble a data-base app (=iMovie) by re-naming any content outside the app. iMovie offers an 'Adjust Clips Date & Time'-feature …
b) the problem occurs with 00:00 (just learned the phrase 'dark zero' )
from my European perspective - is this a 12 either? or, when is12am, resp. 12pm? and in computer/Unix logic: what (or when?) is the difference btw 12pm and zerozero?
with my (German) local settings, I don't have any am or pm in the clips tag, nor in its real file name.
so, could be a simple translation error - from metric to am/pm, or from am/pm to 'computer-ish'/Unix
summary: use the built-in Adjust feature

Can't play (preview) clips in event browser. Spacebar, play button, etc. will not work.

I can't get any form of playback while accessing clips in the Events Browser. I'll highlite a clip, hit spacebar, and it refuses to play. I'll highlite a clip, hit the play button and still get nothing. The playhead sits there, whereas before I had no problem previewing clips in the events browser. I've tried to reset my preferences in FCPX, even downloaded a preference manager to trash corrupted files, but that still didn't do the trick.
Is there a bug in 10.0.8 FCPX for playback? Anybody else have this problem? Its rather frustrating when I'm dealing with a lot of clips. I don't want to drag each individual file down into the timeline for playback...

I've had this only a few times – all in earlier versions–and quitting/relaunching FCP cleared it up.
What about JKL? Does that work?
Russ

Can't see iPhoto movies from the iMovie Event Browser

Has anyone figured this out yet? In iMovie (iLife 09), clicking on "iPhoto Videos" in the event browser gives me the "No matching video" message. All my video clips in iPhoto are .avi files from digital cameras.
The iMovie documentation says that it may not see movie file formats unless they are compatible, and does not list avi as a compatible format.
Can anyone please confirm that iMovie does or does not "see" avi clips from iPhoto? Do I need to convert all the avi clips to .mov files to get iMovie to see them properly?

I spend a few hours on the phone with apple today. I worked my way up to an expert who was a wizard. A few things: 1) he knew about the work-around (turning off the sound in your slideshows), however it does not seem to work for everybody. 2) I had the same problem as reported on this original post, but my problem worsened and iMovie was unable to completely start up. I wont explain all the details here, but there is a known limitation with the conduit between iPhoto and iMovie 09: if you have a great number of movie files in iPhoto, when you try to pull these movies up in iMovie from the Event Library, there is a major bottle neck. iMovie tries to source these files via iPhoto and if you have too many movies in iPhoto (I had 1,595) or the individual movie files are very large, iMovie will stall, unexpectedly quit, or as in my case, completely fail to start. The remedy: export all your movie out of iPhoto to a folder on your desktop and then import them directly into iMovie. (as stated a few other times above). Yes, this is a limitation, however, it's actually faster and you will be less likely to have a issue of a broken video link in the future. Good Luck.

How do I precisely select a movie clip in event browser?

I've got a movie in event browser
I'm having trouble putting the mouse on half a second before the end
I know I can take off snapping which will solve my problem (I assume)
Just wanted to know if there was a keyboard method?
Use J, K or L? Just done this. Works OK
Or maybe click in the time field and put the exact time?
How do I get into the time box using just the keyboard?
Thanks
Omar

Using the numeric keypad (only on extended Apple keyboards, not on MacBook's etc) you can use the minus [-] key to set backwards or [+] key to set forwards, then type on the adjacent numeric keys how many frames to move backwards/forwards (using the numpads' enter/return key at the bottom right to commit).
For example: if moving the playhead back 15 frames, I would press they keypad's [-] key then type [1] then [5] on the keypad, pressing the return key at the bottom right to finish. Also, using the keypad's [.] after the numbers, tells FCP to use seconds and not frames. So moving forward by 12 seconds can be done by pressing [+] then [1] then [2] and finally [.] - completing with the return.
With the event browsers clip, I would use the right cursor key to ensure it's the final frame - then using the [-] on the keypad, type in the frames per second used divided by 2; hitting return to move the selection point to the correct position.

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